With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
Jessica Pratt, Here in the Pitch
The LA-based indie-folk songwriter’s ghostly yet elegant fourth album is all smoke and light work—like the best noirs of the ’40s and ’50s if they were filmed in the druggy late-’60s.
Dua Lipa, Radical Optimism
The pop star’s soaring vocals are overshadowed by scattershot and overengineered production on her third album, as her team of songwriters’ styles clash more often than they mesh.
Broadcast, Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009
The first of two sets of hazy, unfinished recordings from the cult experimental pop band expected this year explores numerous sonic worlds within its lo-fi, homespun arrangements.
Laura Studarus
Besting Tiffany’s and Ivanka Trump at their own game is just another jewel in the crown of the LA-based maker.
Coming off of the biggest record of his career, Anthony Gonzalez regroups and looks to the past for inspiration.
Grabbing breakfast with Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig to talk the soul sisters’ new LP “Good Grief.”
One of Sweden’s greatest exports rides again.
After a big 2015, the Virginia singer/songwriter returns to her home state and drops a stripped-down EP.
Moby’s new vegan eatery opens November 19 in LA’s Silverlake neighborhood.
The funk maestro tells us about the making of his sprawling new LP, “Invite the Light.”
Lead singer Jesse Tabish talks life, lore, and “Rituals.”
It’s a haunting combination of talents, one that offers no way out. Then again, why would you want one?
The twenty-two-year-old musician on leaving EDM behind and making a place for himself in the electronic world with his colorful debut album.
Purity Ring’s sophomore album doesn’t come bundled with the same level of mystery as their debut, “Shrines.”
Keeping up with Dan Deacon is a fool’s errand. His new album “Gliss Riffer” only serves to prove a point already established by the previous fifteen: when it comes to sheer speed of idea presentation, Deacon has the ability to outfox even the most quick-witted and fleet of ear.
His first cover-song-free album, “Vestiges & Claws” showcases González’s ever-flourishing songwriting skills.
Dan Snaith on the state of mind of “Our Love,” Caribou’s first record in four years: “…Relationships change over time. It’s thinking as much about loss as it is about the beginnings of things.”
Second Comin’s production straddles the line between summer bliss and autumnal melancholy, cloaking even the sunniest of melodies in a cloud of reverb.
Celebratory and strange, with Michael, Bundick pulls off just about any damn genre he pleases.